3. Another project pulled out from (basically under the couch finished.

I took this and a long strip of denim I made several months ago, some embroidery floss, and some serious winging it, and made this:

Probably the most eccentric laptop bag in the whole world. The laptop fits with room for the power cord to spare, so although it's far from perfectly designed and made, it's very functional (and fun!).

It didn't take me too long yesterday to figure out my mystery project was an Elizabeth Zimmermann, and then it was a quick flick through Knitting without Tears
(I have a copy with the old orange cover)
to determine I was most of the way to having knit a Tomten. (If I was in any doubt, Pharmaknits knows her EZ better than I!)

And I was only a few short hours from determining that, yes, I did have enough yarn:

Although this guy is blocking, he still needs one of the cuffs loosened and some kind of zipper or buttons or closure. But not today. The current wind chill is -30F/-34C. Nothing short of the house being on fire is making me go outside today.

We can't go over it... we can't go over it... we got to go through it! Splash! Splosh! Squelch! Squerch!* That's the sound of me slogging along through the border of my shawl... I've watched movies, I've knitted at the coffee shop. Tonight, I'm listening to the primary results.